Home Oxygen Company positions for growth 

MODESTO, Calif. – Home Oxygen Company’s recent acquisition of the DME division of a local hospice provider will boost its patient census in California’s Central Valley and position it to grow into 2025, says CEO Andrea Ewert. 

Home Oxygen Company in June announced it had finalized a deal to acquire the DME business from Modesto, Calif.-based Community Hospice & Health Services, a company that it already had a good working relationship with, says Ewert. 

“We supported Community Hospice & Health Services with patient equipment outside of their normal service area,” she said. “We also worked with them during times of equipment or staffing shortages.” 

Home Oxygen Company started in 2007 as a home oxygen provider, before expanding into sleep apnea therapy equipment and supplies, and nebulizers. As part of the deal, it now provides Homefill systems, POCs, Group 1 pressure relieving mattresses and a “robust educational support system” to patients of Community Hospice & Health Services, says Ewert. 

The company has also moved its warehouse to a larger, 10,000-square-foot facility to accommodate the purchase and serve as a regional distribution enter for its warehouses in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay area, she says. 

“Our new warehouse allowed our acquisition of Community Hospice & Health Services distribution center products and personnel, which also allows Home Oxygen Company to support our distribution centers in the San Francisco Bay Area & Sacramento,” she said. “We also use this space for storing and shipping soft goods as we handle resupply shipping in-house.”